Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition

The International Piano Competition Ferruccio Busoni or Italian Concorso Pianistico Ferruccio Busoni International has been founded in 1949 piano competition.

It was founded by Cesare Nordio, director of the " Conservatory of Music Claudio Monteverdi " Bolzano, commemorating Busoni in his 25th death anniversary. The competition was held annually until 2003, then every 2 years.

History

Cesare Nordio already had experience as a member of the jury of the International Competition of Vienna in 1933 and 1936. He wanted in the postwar years in Bolzano create a kind of musical bridge between the Italian and German culture and therefore the significance and influence of Ferruccio Busoni's honor, to this as Italian artists in Germany exercised at the beginning of the century.

Award

The jury stingy in awarding a first prize, in more than half of the years no first prize was awarded, several times even up to 4 consecutive years. In the first year, 1949, no first prize was accepted by the jury, which were chaired by Cesare Nordio Jacques Février, Egon Kornauth, Nikita Magaloff, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Gino Tagliapietra and Antonino Votto, awarded: Alfred Brendel received as 18 -year-old an honorable fourth price and was able to start his career. The jury sat from 1956 to 1960 with Wladimir Vogel Rudolfowitsch also a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni. Later long-time president of the jury was 1982-1996 Hubert Stuppner.

A later become famous prize winner (1957 ) is Martha Argerich, in the nine-member jury was his time in any other Mario Castelnuovo- Tedesco, Nikita Magaloff and Friedrich Wuhrer. Other first prize winners are Jörg Demus (1956 ), Michael Ponti (1964; already 4th prize in 1956 and 3 in 1958 ), Boris Bloch ( 1978), Lilya Zilberstein (1987 ), Alexander Kobrin (1999) and Mikhail Lifits ( 2008/9 ).

Other prizes were awarded to Karl -Heinz Schlüter (1950 2 ), Karl Engel (1951 3 ), Walter Klien (1951 3, 1952 4 ) Ingrid Haebler (1952 4 ), Günter Ludwig ( 1954 3 ), Ludwig Hoffmann (1957 4 ) John Ogdon (1960 5 ), Gernot Kahl (1963 2 ), Pascal Devoyon (1974 2nd and special price), Terence Judd, László Simon (both 1975 3 ) Lev Natochenny (1981 2. ) Friedrich Höricke (1981 5 1982 6 ) Gülsin Onay (1982 6 1983 4 ), Bernd Glemser (1983 5 1984 3 ), Matthias Fletzberger (1984 2 ), Ian Munro, Alfredo Perl (both 1987 3rd), Konstantin Scherbakov (1989 6 ) Maurizio Baglini (1994 6 ), Severin von Eckardstein (1998 6 ), Kiai Nara (1999 6 ) Martin Stadtfeld (2001 6 ) and Anna Winnizkaja ( 2004/5 4 ).